If you run a small business and you have been watching the Employment Rights Act 2025 unfold, you may be wondering whether a menopause policy small business UK owners actually need is now a legal requirement. The short answer, as of July 2026, is no, not yet, and not for you if you employ fewer than 250 people. The longer answer is that the direction of trave...
The Start Up Loans British Business Bank scheme has quietly become one of the most useful funding routes for UK women launching a business. Since 2012, it has issued government-backed personal loans to founders who could not get finance elsewhere, and women make up a strikingly high share of recipients compared with the wider small business population.
Every few months, another founder asks us the same question: is B Corp certification small business owners keep hearing about actually worth the paperwork and the fee? It’s a fair question, especially now that the rules have changed. In April 2025, B Lab launched its most significant standards overhaul in over a decade, and from January 2026, every new applicant must ce...
If you run a small firm and feel like everyone else has already worked out artificial intelligence, the data says otherwise. The best AI tools small business UK owners can pick up today are cheap, quick to learn and finally useful, yet adoption is patchy and stubbornly gendered. In September 2025, the British Chambers of Commerce reporte...
A 2026 guide to home working expenses self employed women can claim through HMRC, with current flat rates, apportionment rules and pitfalls.
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